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Answer for the clue "Gather discriminately ", 4 letters:
cull

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A selection. 2 An organised killing of selected animals. vb. 1 To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). 2 To gather, collect. 3 To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick , pluck ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "choose, select, pick; collect and gather the best things from a number or quantity," especially with reference to literary selections, from Old French cuiler "collect, gather, pluck, select" (12c., Modern French cueillir ), from Latin colligere ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cull is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elizabeth Cull (21st century), Canadian politician, teacher, and broadcast panel member Nicholas J. Cull (21st century), British writer John Cull , Australian politician David "Dave" Cull , Mayor ...

Usage examples of cull.

The twins Cull and Arlec Byce crossed their matching limewood axes on top of the growing pile.

I was to be culled, for no more reason than to keep the Academy in political balance.

I was naked at the carnival and everyone knew that I had been culled from the Academy.

To speak of us being culled seemed unlucky, as if it were a curse I might bring down on us by speaking it aloud.

I could not even tell them of my dishonourable discharge or that they were soon to be culled as well.

Dark Evening and Caulder, and being culled with only a future as a scout now.

He has already heard rumours that Rebin will recall many of the culled cadets from previous years, to try to rebuild a corps of officers for the future.

I could not even tell them of my dishonorable discharge or that they were soon to be culled as well.

He has already heard rumors that Rebin will recall many of the culled cadets from previous years, to try to rebuild a corps of officers for the future.

I have never been outside the United States, and so my curiosity about the rest of the world has gone untended, save for information culled from periodicals and the people around me.

She culled out any that dealt with photography or imaging, and focused on a more workable list of nine.

After watching the horse long enough to see his mistake, Tolleston culled the gray back and rode into the herd to claim another.

There were now over a hundred and forty head to be culled back, and Sponsilier was entitled to ten of them.

The seller agreed to hold them overnight, and Flood and I culled back about one hundred and twenty which were under age or too light.

After Flood rode out of this second contingent, I culled back about a dozen light weights.